I am a brand new foster parent. My fiancé and I have worked with a foster/adoption agency for the past year and a half to become approved for a foster to adopt program. We were place one week ago with a 10 day old infant. I was so busy this week acclimating to the new infant and setting up our home that I only had time to tell my four children (who are all grown and away at college) and my mother that we had this infant placed with us. Someone called the foster agency and informed them that I was drinking around the infant and that I was financially unstable. These are false allegations.

Note: Sound familiar fellow CPS Victims?

And to all the foster parents out there... They'll do it to you to. :)

JUST over 13 years ago former Queensland governor Leneen Forde delivered her Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Abuse of Children in Queensland Institutions. It was a 380-page bombshell, the shockwaves from which rippled around the state.

“Right for Kids Rankings” Shows States Where to Improve in 11 Key Outcome Areas

Some states will celebrate. Others will cringe. Policymakers, bureaucrats and child advocates are sure to thumb through the pages of the first-annual Right for Kids Ranking to see how their child welfare system compares to every other states’ and the District of Columbia’s.

A source confirms to Us Weekly that Katie Holmes is asking for sole legal custody of Suri, her 6-year-old daughter with Tom Cruise. After five years of marriage, Holmes' attorney announced her planned divorce from the Rock of Ages actor, 49, on Friday. The papers were filed on Thursday under "Anonymous vs. Anonymous."

A Manchester MP is asking for the support of parliamentary colleagues in a bid to get a Government apology to all the unmarried mothers who were forced to offer their children up for adoption during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.

Note: And what about the new mom's of today? Don't they deserve an apology for the forced stealing of their babies over these phony emotional abuse accusations?

Friday, June 29, 2012

Child abusers who try to escape punishment by blaming someone else or staying silent will face up to 10 years’ imprisonment, under a new law similar to the one used to bring Baby P’s killers to justice.

This statements from Children's Rights came Friday evening. The organization gives the Mississippi Department of Family and Children a low grade on helping neglected and abused children. Here is the statement, verbatim. Watch for a follow-up story next week.

Chiefs from all five of Maine's tribes joined Gov. Paul LePage today in signing an historic agreement to create a Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission. It will examine child welfare practices that once resulted in large numbers of Indian children being forcibly removed from their homes. The ceremony in the State House Hall of Flags marks the first time that such an effort has occurred in the United States between Indian nations and a state government. Tribal members consider the agreement crucial to their healing process.

The mother of a grossly overweight 9-year-old boy had the right to move from Ohio to Georgia with her son, who was temporarily removed from his home last fall to lose weight, a juvenile court judge said on Thursday.

Nowhere is political rhetoric more shameless – or more dangerous – than in the pious names that politicians give to the legislation they pass. Perhaps the most egregious example is the so-called "Indian Child Welfare Act," which callously sacrifices the welfare of Indian children.

Unregistered child care homes have come under the state government's scanner after trafficking of 37 children, including 36 from the state, came to light in two Christian institutions in Tamil Nadu recently. One of the trafficked children was found to be from Jharkhand.

Note: They should just say "good kitty" and laugh at the dumb bitch for sticking her hand in a cougars mouth.

Police are not sure how to handle a pet cougar accused of biting an Ohio social services worker because it appears the owner didn't act illegally, and the state's new exotic animal law doesn't take effect until fall.

The Parents Join Forces No more children kidnapping by the uk social services ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

Imagine the scenes, if all major highway networks throughout the UK were blockaded by thousands of motorists on the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games....the 27th of July. Wait, thats just a month away. You didn't need much time to organise the petrol blockades did you? Organising something like this is just as doable. Cameron said that there is to be no protests on the day of the games....there won't be any games if people cannot get to them via the highways. All major motorways and A roads are blocked. How many long distance lorry drivers do you know that have had their children stolen by the state? Start talking to them now and ask them to apply the same tactics as in the fuel crisis back in 2000. If we are to get the Governments attention and I mean full attention, then we must demonstrate how much power we do have. Thoughts please.

Imagine blocking the entire road networks with protesters in their cars, vans, motor homes and lorries.....you did it with the rise in petrol, then lets do the same for our children. This will send the Government in to a blind panic. As my video suggests, you protest about fuel, poll tax and blood sports but what about the children? All major roads blocked (except ALL HARD SHOULDERS) these must remain open for emergency personnel. It must be done peacefully. The mission is to get the whole country to stop working and bring disruption and chaos. Petrol prices, poll tax and blood sports matter but NOT as much as your children do. All this taking place on the same day as the opening ceremony to the Olympic Games. I would offer an apology for the disruption this will cause for those who have all bought tickets to the games but, I wouldn't mean it. We need to hit them where it hurts like they do to us.

Ignoring this simply is not an option. Lastly, imagine if we do this, how many countries can we get to do the same on the day? Worldwide peaceful protest against child stealing is back and bigger than before.

You have the choice whether to work or not but, you didn't have a choice when they came and took you children away....

"CHOICE" - an act or instance of choosing or opportunity to choose. The child had no choice about going with the $ocial $ervices......

Life is all about choices. You choose to protest about the fuel prices, you choose to protest about blood sports, you choose to convince people UFO's exist etc.....now you choose to get behind the blockading of all major highways in the UK. M25, M4, M5, M1, M23, M6 etc......this would cause major disruption around the country. Spanning from Lands End to Jonh O' Groats.

This is the ultimate choice, one that does not require you to think, only act. Bringing the country to it's knees will make the PM panic. Forever hearing about strikes by NHS staff, emergency services and rail services but, what if the country went on strike, nothing would get done. At least we would have succeeded in getting their attention.

Thoughts please.

Will you save Thousands of children being stolen every year with no rights

forced adoptions parents ailinated against each other and the children.

In a victory for President Obama, the Supreme Court decided to uphold his signature health care law's individual mandate in a split decision, upending speculation after hostile-seeming oral arguments in March that the justices would overturn the law. The mandate has been upheld as a tax, according to SCOTUSblog, with Chief Justice John Roberts joining the liberal wing of the court.

Dozens of proponents of a bill aimed at reforming the state’s system for handling troubled kids gathered at the State House yesterday to make a final push for action before the current legislative session ends.

The state law requiring school employees to report any suspected abuse of a child within 24 hours is not new. But two Cobb County principals — now ex-principals — and a former counselor are facing criminal charges of failing to report suspected abuse.

If you are a victim of domestic violence and have children, I do not recommend calling Maui's Child Protective Services for help. You may end up like Layla Shiek, a Somalian refugee, who after years of abuse by her husband, went to the CPS offices for help. Instead, her children were taken away. She was put through a grueling court system, and though she fulfilled all requirements--including learning English in two years, getting a job and apartment, etc.--her parental rights were stripped and her children traumatized.

On a porch a few blocks from Playland, a tidy shelf holds dozens of pairs of kids’ shoes. There are Crocs and sandals and sneakers. All of them belong to Cory Robinson’s gaggle of kids, two biological and three foster, whom he parents with his long-time girlfriend. Twice a week there are more shoes, when another three former foster kids come for dinner. His goal is to make sure all eight of them—plus the teens he mentors through his outreach job at the Eastside Aboriginal Space for Youth—know who they are, like who they are, and turn 19 ready for financial and emotional independence.

TWO teenage brothers who have spent nearly all the lives in care could win damages after a High Court ruled that a local authority allowed them to be subjected to “degrading treatment and physical assault”.

Note: And when you have your pictures developed at Walmart, they look at them too and will even call CPS on you.

“I live in Compton. Walmart employees go through my social services agency. They are eligible for Medi-Cal, food stamps and cash benefits. I have served Walmart workers. I think it is ironic, one of the wealthiest companies, does not pay their workers a living wage. When you work at Walmart, you are still eligible for welfare.

Instead of publishing the countless reports that have come out regarding the Jerry Sandusky case, I have created a Clip Syndicate Smart Channel, and will just show them all in one nice neat little package.

At the time of creating this channel, there are 1252 video reports regarding Jerry Sandusky and the Penn State Sex Abuse Scandal. Of course it would take you hours upon hours to view them all but it goes all the way to the very beginning.

Mathura's child welfare system is marred by poor sanitation and living standards, dilapidated buildings, ineffective staff and irregular adoptions, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) says.

Imagine, if you will, this hypothetical scenario: Jerry Sandusky, following his conviction this week on 45 separate counts related to child molestation, somehow manages to slip out of custody, and flee Pennsylvania and eventually the country. Sandusky surfaces in Canada, due to some legal loophole avoids extradition back to the U.S. and completely escapes any punishment for his crimes.

Note: America's obsession with Penn State Sex Abuse Scandal continues with all of these wanna-be legal analysts bringing up everything else. Truth be stated, the normal people are all a bunch of emotion junkies who eat this shit up.

A couple from California, who wrote a popular blog about their journey to adopt four children from Ghana, was detained by Ghanaian authorities on suspicion of child trafficking as they tried to take the youngsters back to the U.S.

A bill to broaden Delaware’s child-abuse laws unanimously cleared a House committee Thursday – but not before parents loudly voiced concerns that the legislation could outlaw spanking. The Department of Justice, which is backing Senate Bill 234, says parental discipline still would be protected elsewhere in the code.

Social Development Minister Paula Bennett is encouraging people who were abused as a result of the state being involved in their care, including placement with wider family or in foster homes, to apply for compensation.

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Four men were arrested yesterday on charges of recruiting underage girls in the foster care system to work as prostitutes in a Homestead brothel. Also mentioned in the same human trafficking investigation is Jean LaCroix, a Florida Department of Children and Families child protective investigator. He's suspected of repeatedly having sex with a foster child he was assigned to protect.

The military dictatorship of Francisco Franco is remembered in Spain for many things, but one of the most horrific is the abduction of thousands of babies and infants which persisted long after the end of Franco’s rein.

A woman who was forced by local officials to abort a seven-month-old fetus this month and whose case has spurred a national discussion about China’s one-child policy said on Tuesday that she was “under a lot of pressure” and was being watched by guards in a hospital, who do not allow her to leave.

An American couple, who used their popular blog to chronicle their journey to adopt four children from Ghana, was detained by Ghanaian authorities and forced to spend a night in detention as they tried to take the children back to the U.S., according to officials.

Before 1963, our founding fathers had intended that our schools would be the bastions of teaching our children moral and ethical conduct. Why, heaven knows that prayers were allowed, even encouraged, in school, the Ten Commandments were even taught. If you want to proof that statement, then go back and check out the UNREVISED history of the United States. I am a firm believer that our Creator gave us free will and the rewards or consequences of our decisions right or wrong. I said that so that you would know where I’m coming from in this following article.

Jerry Sandusky has been found guilty of dozens of charges relating to him sexually abusing boys he was supposedly mentoring. His adopted son claims that he was victimized, too. Yet Sandusky's wife Dottie has testified she never suspected her husband was hurting anyone, ever. And the abuse occurred, in part, inside the Sandusky home, while Dottie was reportedly there.

A child missing in a custody violation was found and is safe, Lakewood Police reported late Sunday night. Police earlier had asked for the public's help in locating a 2-year-old girl who had been taken by her mother in Lakewood in violation of a court order.

Homeless District families seeking shelter have recently gotten “chilling” warnings, Annie Gowen reports in the Post: If you can’t find a safe place to sleep, the Child and Family Services Agency could investigate you for abuse and neglect, and possibly take your kids away.

"This ruling invalidating the life sentences of many of our family members' murder cases comes against the backdrop of tragedy. While we understand the tragic consequences to the killers, the entire context of this decision is first and foremost the appalling and senseless murders of our innocent loved ones and the devastation left behind," said Jennifer Bishop-Jenkins, NOVJL President. "Everyone's biggest concern now must be finding, notifying and supporting the many affected victims' families."

The scandal around Jerry Sandusky has prompted a number of state legislators to advance legislation to require stronger mandatory reporting. Richard Wexler, Executive Director of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform, says that such legislation is misguided: most mandatory reports are unsubstantiated, so more reports will make it more difficult to find real abuse, not less.

Three years ago, Mirko and Regina Ceska of Crawfordville, FLA told former Gov. Charlie Crist their two adopted 12-year-olds had been prescribed 11 pills a day, including the powerful antipsychotic Seroquel, reported the Tampa Bay Times. "These girls were overdosed and would fall asleep right in front of us several times a day," Mirko Ceska told Crist at an "Explore Adoption Day'' event. "It seems to be a prerequisite for foster children to be on medication," said Ceska, calling the pills "chemical restraint."

The apology, similar to that made to Indigenous Australians and the Stolen Generations, follows a recent parliamentary inquiry that detailed the horrific impact the policy of forced adoption had on mothers and their children.

It is no secret that foster children can be dangerously overmedicated. Three years ago, Mirko and Regina Ceska of Crawfordville, FLA told former Gov. Charlie Crist their two adopted 12-year-olds had been prescribed 11 pills a day, including the powerful antipsychotic Seroquel, reported the Tampa Bay Times.

* Comparing CEO pay increases at not-for-profits to average worker pay increases in the private sector might be a fun exercise, but perhaps the Tribune should’ve compared not-for-profit CEO pay hikes to private sector CEO raises. Either way, though, the Tribune found this when it looked at not-for-profit groups which get most of their money from state taxpayers…

Jerry Sandusky was convicted Friday of sexually assaulting 10 boys over 15 years, accusations that had sent shock waves through the college campus known as Happy Valley and led to the firing of Penn State's beloved Hall of Fame coach, Joe Paterno.

A new report by a national child advocacy group says Nebraska appears to be making progress in taking fewer children out of their homes and putting them in foster care. The report says during the year ending Sept. 30, Nebraska took away 2,540 children, compared to 3,373 the prior year and the lowest number since at least 1999.

Taxpayers have spent more than $70 million in a single year in Michigan on psychotropic drugs for foster kids and other children on Medicaid. And, nearly a quarter of Michigan foster kids were on psychotropic drugs to counteract behavioral problems and diagnosed mental illness in 2008, according to a recent government report.

Jerry Sandusky was either a "predatory pedophile" who lured young boys to Penn State with gifts and access to big-time football, or a victim of now-grown men who lied to get a payout, attorneys argued Thursday as the former coach's child sex abuse case went to a jury.

My sisters mean the world to me. They are who I grew up with. Now we are raising our children together-even though separated by many miles. One day we will be old and our parents no longer with us, but we will have each other. We have a special bond. Regardless of where we are in life, that bond is there.

When it comes to the state, county child protection can be measured by the numbers -- how often kids are removed from a home and brought back, then removed again; how many parents are being reached by support services. But perhaps the most significant measurements are of face time with children, from monthly visits with kids who may be at risk, to tracking down a child within 24 hours of a serious report of abuse. That response time, according to state data obtained by the Winona Post, has not always been met, and in cases reviewed by the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS), child risk and safety were adequately assessed and managed in only 37.5 percent of cases studied.

Lawyers for the former Penn State assistant football coach on trial for child sex abuse allegations finished putting on their case Wednesday without calling Jerry Sandusky to the stand to rebut charges that could put him in prison for the rest of his life.

More than 40 years ago, when Jamie Lee Evans, project director of Y.O.U.T.H. Training Project, was 5 years old, her foster parents at a group home in Los Angeles taunted a young boy who they believed was gay.

State child welfare officials on Wednesday told lawmakers they are working to reverse a decade-long trend toward putting at-risk kids in foster care, instead helping families at home and saving taxpayer money.

Parents who use Johnson and Johnson’s “No More Tears” baby shampoo could get a visit from a social worker asking questions about illegal drug use, according to a surprising new study at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Researchers say baby shampoos and other soaps used to wash newborn babies may cause infants to test positive for marijuana.

A New York-based children's advocacy group that sued Oklahoma over its alleged mistreatment of foster children billed the state for more than $9.5 million in legal fees it says it racked up during the four years leading up to a January settlement.

Commonly used baby soaps and shampoos, including products from Johnson & Johnson, Aveeno and CVS, can trigger a positive result on newborns' marijuana screening tests, according to a recent study. A minute amount of the cleansing products in a urine sample — just 0.1 milliliters or less — was found to cause a positive result.

It was a big day in the child sex-abuse trial of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, as the defense called its biggest witness so far--the defendant's wife, Dottie. NBC’s John Yang reports.

The US State Department released their annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report today (June 19th 2012) and once again Japan was ranked as a 2nd tier nation. It barely escaped being placed on the watch-list for a 2nd time, according to some sources. Human trafficking in Japan not only includes sexual slavery, a government sponsored intern system for foreign workers has also received heavy criticism as virtual slavery, unchecked and almost condoned by the Japanese government. Human trafficking provides a significant source of revenue for organized crime and yakuza involvement in the business remains strong. Ironically, as it becomes more difficult to bring in foreign laborers for the sex industry, increasingly young Japanese girls are being targeted and exploited by the traffickers, some as young as 13 years. Yet, only about 80% of the Japanese population is aware that domestic trafficking is a reality in Japan.

Issue of Americans adopting Russian children has become a hot button political issue since 2010 when a Tennessee mother shipped back to Russia an 11-year-old boy on an 11-hour-flight. That turned suspension to all Russian adoptions and a greater scrutiny of the type of parents who adopt. This leads us to the case of three children in Texas adopted from Russia and who had many difficulties with their new life in America. Joining us now to tell us her story is Diana Black, she runs a home for abused children in Silsbee, Texas.

An attorney representing an 11-year-old boy whose Lane County adoptive parents were sent to prison for horrific abuse that hospitalized him for a month is suing the Oregon Department of Human Services for $4.75 million.

An arm of the Alaska Legislature is recommending a complete overhaul of the state’s Office of Children’s Services grievance process after years of complaints from Alaskans who say it’s becoming too difficult to resolve child protective issues.

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

An elementary school in Clinton, North Carolina says an assistant principal was within her legal rights when she stripped a 10-year-old boy down to his underwear because he had been accused of stealing $20.

Two Fort Bend County families are suing their children's former special education teacher months after allegations surfaced that she put a child with autism in a filing cabinet, ripped another's hair out of her head and behaved erratically in the classroom.

The mother of alleged Victim One, the 18-year-old Clinton County teen whose accusations against Jerry Sandusky led to a police investigation in 2009, was called to testify by the defense today and denied ever telling anyone she would get rich off the allegations he son made against the former Penn State assistant football coach.

Fewer children would be stuck in foster care if state authorities reduced red tape and standardized procedures nationwide to encourage more adoptions by out-of-state families, according to a coalition of child welfare experts appealing for change.

Already in open violation of a federal decree on child welfare investigations, the Illinois agency that oversees well-being of families faces new budget cuts that could lead to hundreds of worker layoffs and the elimination of services that have helped keep thousands of children out of foster care.

What you end up with is a high number of calls where people are reporting every little thing just in order to cover their asses. This makes it much more likely that real or significant cases of child abuse will be overlooked. It also makes it much more likely that inexperienced CPS Agents will be hired on to keep up, falsely substantiating or wasting precious time and resources on the little parental imperfections or nothing at all.

Not to mention Florida has a poorly designed system. In the case of Nubia Barahona, for example, they were unable to connect the dots of four separate calls to the child abuse hotline on the twins.

So as you can see, Governor Rick Scott is simply over-reacting to a high profile child abuse case, in a way that will only put more kids into harms way and more families at risk of unncessary child abuse interventions, ultimately leading to more kids being stolen by DCF and thrown into foster care.

But look on the bright side. The state will be able to increase the amount of federal funding that comes in, ultimately resulting in more jobs and contracts for the System Sucks. Good job Gov!!!

Amid the many inspiring stories of terrific dads and potential "Father of the Year" candidates celebrated in the media this past Father's Day were a few not-so-inspiring contenders for the "Worst Father of the Year" title. Just days ago news outlets reported that the state of Tennessee is struggling to collect child support on behalf of 78 children fathered by three men -- yes, three men (and 46 women). Authorities are at a loss because although the men are incapable of supporting the children and have done repeated jail time for failure to pay child support, nothing can be done to prevent the men from having more children, and they have given no indication that they plan to stop fathering children they cannot support.

“Sickening” and “shocking” is how National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) described the state of affairs at ‘Apna Ghar’, a shelter home in Rohtak, Haryana. A four member committee, constituted by the Punjab and Haryana High Court, found that sexual abuse, forcible stripping, pornography and even forced abortion were common in the shelter home, which now has been sealed.

That's right Floridians...beginning in the Fall, it will be a 3rd degree Felony, punishable up to 5 years in jail for not reporting suspected child abuse. This goes for caretakers, authority AND strangers.

National and local family planning authorities are investigating a case involving a seven-month pregnant woman in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province who was allegedly forced by the local government to abort her second child.

Pitzer was a ward of the state. Over the next nine years he was moved 17 times into psychiatric facilities, foster homes and treatment programs of varying lengths, according to interviews with Pitzer, his court-appointed special advocate and his attorney.

Almost immediately he was put on a cocktail of medications to help control his mood.

Critics of the writer Joyce Maynard say there’s no secret she won’t reveal, that her abortion, her breast implants, her love affair with a certain iconic literary recluse, are all for sale. At $1.50 a word — what the typical women’s magazine pays — it takes a lot of confessing to cover the mortgage.

But the famously prolific Maynard has fallen silent on the topic of her failed international adoption, flummoxing the rabble who decried a “vanity adoption” by a narcissist who needed new topics for her articles.

Saturday, June 16, 2012

The Boy Scouts of America didn't want anyone to see its so-called "perversion files," the dossiers on men considered unfit to lead young Scouts. Too inflammatory. Too upsetting. Too likely to damage the Scouts' brand.

I grew up in foster homes and group homes and was treated like crap. I mean today I am a foster youth rights advocate and make a difference in the foster care system and this is not at all to say that all foster homes treat their youth like crap but a lot of them do. Why do you think that is?

We want to thank Daniel Pollack, a professor at Yeshiva University’s School of Social Work in New York City and a frequent expert witness in child welfare cases for sending an article he published “Homeschooling and Child Protection”, Policy & Practice (Feb. 2012). The issue that he wrote about is an important one in the child welfare world and one that has hit home in real life recently in Dayton, Ohio. We have adapted this blog article in large part from Professor Pollack’s article.

Earlier this week, we learned that median family wealth has fallen dramatically over the past several years, taking us back to levels not seen since the early 1990s. Now the Department of Agriculture (which for some reason studies these things) reports that the cost of raising kids from birth to the age of 17 has increased by some $8,000, to a whopping $235,000 for middle-income Americans. Great.

Collette Elliott treasures the simple rituals of motherhood — the Saturday mornings when her three daughters clamber onto her bed for a cuddle and a chat, and the Sunday evenings spent watching a DVD together.

There is a recent photo of a Chinese mother who was "forced to abort" her 7-month old baby in the hospital, has been circulated on the web in China. She was dragged out from her relative's home and "forced to abort" her baby by the Chinese authorities as she couldn't afford to pay the hefty fine for illegally having more than one-child in China. This news which causes uproar and gets a lot of media attention in China as well as the worldwide.

AFTER $12 million of taxpayers' money has been spent trying to fix the computer system that underpins the state's child protection system, the government is abandoning the upgrade, calling the results a disaster.